Type-writing-machine attachment.



No. 880,077. PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908-. E. T. HILLS. TYPE WRITING MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

A-BPLIOA TION FILED 0OT.11, 1.907.

a e/474m? Y I To all whom it concern:

, UNITED era-runs EUGENE T. HILLS, or SA T LAKE CITY, ms, iissienort or ONE-HALF T rarrnnr onrrcn. I

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Be itknown that I, 1". Hats, citizenof the United State's,.' residing at. Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and 5 State of Utah, have invented newand useful Improvements in Type-WritingrMachine At tac ments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to typewritin-g ma- 1()' chinesmnd it contemplates the provision of. a

simple and inexpensive attachment through the medium of which the segment of a typewriting machine may be shifted by the foot of the o orator, thusenabl-ing the. operator to '15 use bo'ohands at all times in actual writing,

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and one which is readily applicable to machines such as at present in use without entailing change in the construction thereof, and? which is noiseless and reliable in opera- With the fore oing in mind the invention will, be fully un erstood from the following descrip tionand claim when the same are read inconnection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in

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Figure 1 is a view illustrating my improvements as properly attached to a typewriting 1 machine. Flg. 2 is an. 'enlar ed detail plan illustratinthe pedal lever o my improvever of my ments, an the su port therefor. Fig. 3 is a vertical section ta en in the lane indicated by the line 3'3 of Fig.2. i ig. 4 is' an en- 1 larged detail section illustrating the upper lerovements and, the a ,purtenances thereof? 'Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail perspective, partly section, illustrating the 7 connection intermediate the pedal lever and :the connecting. rod of the improvements, and: 40 Fig. 6 is a similar view illustrative of the connection between the upper lever and the'connectin rod.

arts in all of the .views of the drawings, re-

erring to which:

typewriting machine asis necessary to illus- A is aftypewriterfstand' which may be of any construction compatible fwit'h the purpose oi my inventionpafldfBf-is somuch of a to. tra te the application: of my attachment ;the

:gaid machine being provided with'a shift. key C'of the ordinary or any approved construction. v Connected at a in a hinged mannerto the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 11. 1907. Serial No'rBQBSQ-L 'ar letters designate. eorres onding Patented Feb. 25, 1908.

under side of the frame .of the. machine B or to any other suitable support is} the "upper lever I of my novel attachment. As Shown, the said lever is arranged to swing" vertically, and is equipped with a bum 1,

ad E, a hook F and a socket, G. he

umper Ipad E is arranged to' bring up against t e part to which the lever connected with a view of preventing noise on the upward movement of the lever, and the hook F reaches upward from the lever and is. arrangedover the shift key 0 after the manner illustrated in Fig. 1, so as to assure the shift key 0 accompanying the lever D in the down, ward movement oi the latter. The socket G is carried at the under side of the lever and is-provided as best shown in Fig. 6 with a depending loop-shaped portion band an openmg cin said loop-sha ed portion; the said opening 0 having an en argement c for a purpose presently set forth. In addition to the upper lever D, my novel attachment comprises a connecting rod H, a pedal lever I, and a supportingbar J for the latter. The

supporting bar J is preferably provided at its ends with apertured lugs d to adapt it for convenient attachment to the sides of the stand A, and in the preferred embodiment of the invention said supporting bar is preferably canted or inclined to a slight extent in the direction of its width. The :pedal lever I is pivotally connected to one corner of the supportin bar J, preferably througlithe medium of a ingc e, Fi 3, and said pedal lever is provided, by pre erence, with a heel rest and. is also provided with a socket g, the atter being preferably located at the forward end of the lever and having a loop' sai opening i being provided with an en'- larged. portion 71.

and is provided with a, head countersunk in 105 the upper side of the lever and with a bumper pad M disppsed below the sup'porting bar. The said olt is arranged to move shazpedportion h and an opening 1, therein;

. .95 Between the supporting bar J and the V has its lower end threaded at k and screwed into an end piecel which in turn is provided with a head m, preferably a round head, disbe readily accomplished by pressin the lever D. This will diminish the istance normal position.

' socket g.

- osed in'the socket g of the pedal lever I.

y virtue of this construction it will be apparent that when it is desired to disconnect the connecting rod H from the pedal lever I and the upper lever D,the same may down between the lever D and the lever jI sufficiently to enable the upoer head 3' toreach the enlarged portion 0' of'the opening in-the upper socket G, when said head 'may be removed thro'ughsaid enlarged portion 0 of the opening. Then by lowering the connecting rod, the head m may be removed through the enlarged portion 5/ of the opening "5 in 'In the ractical use of my novel attachmentit wi l be-apparent that when theoperator presses with er foot on the leverl'. said lever will be depressed, and through the me-' dium of the connectin lever I) and the hook will effect a simultaneous lowering of the shift key C. Upon the lever I being relieved of pressure, the spring K will promptly raise sald' lever to its normal position, and the shift key in rising will raise the lever D to and hold it in its I At this point attention. is called to the fact. that by reason of the hook F being employed, the shift key C niay,-when for any reason it is desirable, be depressed by hand without the necessityof the operator moving the parts of my attachment; also, that the said hook F is advantageous since it'effects connection of my attachment to the shift key without entailing puncturing of the latter.

As will be readily gathered from'thc foregoing, my improved attachment is'simple and inex ensive in ,constru'ctiom is susceptible of eing readily attached to different types of typewriting machines without the necessity of employing skilled labor, and is rod H, the upper 1 relative to the shift key C, said hook is preferably threaded at p and secured in a threaded socket r on the upper lever D, as best shown in Fig. 4. p 1 The construction herein shown and described constitutes the best means known to me for carrying my invention into effect, but

it is obvious that in the future practice of the invention such chan es or modifications may be made as fairly fall within the scope of my invention as defined in the claim appended.

I am well aware that it is old in garmentsupporters to employ spaced plates one of which is formed with a keyhole-slot, in com-' I bination with a suspender tab having an enlarged end for cooperation with the walls of the slot, and I' therefore make no claim to such subject matter.

What I claim and desire to secure by'Letters-Patent, is z In a typewriter attachment, the combination witha pedal lever, a socket'piece disposed on the upper side of the forward portion-of ,thepedal lever and having an upwardly extending loop-shaped portion in which 1s an oblong olpenmg terminating at its lower end in an en arged opening, a lever disposed above the pedal lever and equipped wit of a typewriting machine, a socket piece disposed at the under side of the upper lever 1 means for actuating the shifting means and having 3. depending loop-shaped portion in which isan oblong o ening terminating at its upper end in an en arged o ening, and a spring for cushioning the pe alflever and raising said lever when the same is relieved nesses;

EUGENE T. HILLS. Witnesses:

Lnwrs S. HILLS, H. S. YOUNG.. 

